1. A Global Conflict

2. June 1941 Desiring “Lebensraum” or living space
for the German empire, Hitler launches
Operation Barbarosa and attacks the Soviet Union

4. Henriech
Himmler SS
Commander
Ordered to Kill any Jews in German occupied Soviet Union.

6. Stalin
institutes a
“Scorched
Earth
Policy”
to fight
the
German
Army

7. Hitler’s “New Order”
Germany pillages both human and natural resources of Europe for the Third Reich.

8. The “Final Solution” or “Holocaust”

10. AUSCHWITZ

12. It is estimated that 5-6 million Jews are
killed during the Holocaust.

15. Japanese Aggression In
Asia

16. Japan is…
Poor
Crowded
Lacking in natural resources
Militaristic
Led by Emperor Hirohito

17. Emperor Hirohito

18. America Britain China Dutch Japan wants to rid Asia
of the “A B C D” Countries
America
Britain
China
Dutch

19. 1931- Japan invades Manchuria

20. When the League of Nations
protest, Japan withdraws
from the League.

21. 1936 The U.S Congress passes The Neutrality Acts:
1. No US sale of weapons to warring countries.
2. No US citizens on ships of warring nations.
3. Cash & Carry- All countries at war pay
cash for non-military goods and carry
them back to their country.

22. 1937 US Isolationism at High Tide
A US poll finds 2/3 of the American public
feels our involvement in WW I was a mistake.

23. The Bombing of Shanghai
1937 – Japan invades China
The Bombing of Shanghai

24. The “Rape of Nangking” Thousands of Chinese civilians are raped and
murdered by
Japanese soldiers.

26. Prime Minister Tojo

27. 1940- Japan invades Indo-China
Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

28. As a reaction the US
embargos oil and scrap metal to
Japan.

29. AMERICA RESPONDS
Isolationism or Interventionism?

30. America Tries To Stay Out
Congress
passes the
Neutrality
Acts.
The
“America
First
Committee”
is formed
to keep the
US out of
another
European
War.

31. 1936- Hitler invades the Rhineland.
1938- Hitler annexes Austria.
1938 – The Munich Pact gives Hitler
The Sudetenland. He later takes the rest
of Czechoslovakia.
1939- Hitler signs a Non-Aggression Pact
with the Soviet Union and Invades Poland.
Sept. 1, 1939 France an Britain declare
war on Germany.

32. Great Britain stand alone.
The “Blitzkrieg”
Germany over runs Europe
Great Britain stands alone
Great Britain stand alone.

33. Triple Axis formed. 1940 Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis The US begins the
Selective Service System.
Japan invades
Indochina

34. 1941 The Lend-Lease Act America promises aid to any
country whose defense is deemed
vital to US security- The US becomes
the “Arsenal of Democracy”

35. June 1941 Desiring “Lebensraum” or living space
for the German empire, Hitler launches
Operation Barbarosa and attacks the Soviet Union.

36. 1941 THE ATLANTIC CHARTER British Prime Minister FDR Winston Churchill
The Idea of a United Nations
Peacekeeping Organization is born.

37. 1941 FDR announces The Freedom “Four of Speech Freedoms.” and Worship.
Freedom from
Fear and
Want

38. “December 7th, 1941
a date which will live in infamy.”

39. Admiral Yamamoto

43. BATTLESHIP ROW

46. USS ARIZONA

48. FDR
signs
declaration
of war
against
Japan
December 8,
1941.

50. The Allies or United Nations vs. The Axis Powers
Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Manchukuo, Mexico, Mongolian People's Republic, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Salvador, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Union of South Africa, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia.

53. JAPANESE INTERNMENT

54. Executive Order 9066

55. Ten camps established
110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry
ordered into relocation camps.
About 70, 000 Nisei – Native born Japanese-
Americans.
About 40,000 Issei – Foreign born,
not citizens.

59. Manzanar

60. MANZANAR